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Category: Friday Reads

Friday Reads – 6 December 2019

On 6 December 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, History, Maps, Pedestrians

• History of Holborn Viaduct (HydeParkNow) • London 1933 Underground, Power and Substations Diagram (TransitMaps) • Repurposed Parisien transport infrastructure (FabricOfParis) • New Berlin airport & rail link to open, finally, October 2020 (IntlRailJ) • …

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Friday Reads – 20 December 2019

On 6 December 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, New York, Uber

• How the Tube beat the New York subway (Guardian) • Overground station mosaic roundels a hit (TransportXtra) • Commercial reuses of disused Paris transport infra (FabricOfParis) • Is East Side Access really going to …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 2 December 2019

On 2 December 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, New York, Pedestrians, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• Introducing the Central London Walking Network (LondonLivingStreets) • Sheffield’s tram-train a success so far (Wired) • Why Paris wants to tax Amazon deliveries (CityLab) • Redesign cities with women in mind (Globe&Mail) • Augmented …

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Friday Reads – 29 November 2019

On 29 November 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Crossrail, Friday Reads, Maps, Pedestrians, TfL, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• TfL’s cancelled roundel (IanVisits) • London recent aerial photography (Colossal) • UK railways mostly nationalised – by other countries (LondonEconomic) • Medieval trade routes interactive map (MerchantMachine) • Copenhagen increasing parking costs 100 times …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 25 November 2019

On 25 November 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Architecture, Friday Reads, New York, Pedestrians

• Westminster Tube station gets Africa themed roundels (IanVisits) • How Barcelona replaced car domination with SuperBlocks (Vox) • Are train companies doing enough to help disabled passengers? (Which?) • The importance of station second …

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Friday Reads – 22 November 2019

On 22 November 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, New York, Pollution

• Map of tunnel boring machines under the Thames (IanVisits) • Is surge pricing a fair way to manage demand? (BBC) • Rising Paris Métro ridership is driving new solutions (CityLab) • NYC is spending …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 18 November 2019

On 18 November 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Data, Friday Reads, London Cycle Hire Scheme, Maps, Pedestrians, Uber, Vertical transport

• Lyft bikeshare shut out of London (Bloomberg) • TfL publishes tables of Tube capacity (CityMetric) • Rotterdam’s crowdfunded Luchtsingel pedestrian bridge (PopUpCity) • The future of transportation is the bus, bike, and elevator (Slate) …

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Friday Reads – 15 November 2019

On 15 November 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, New York, TfL

• 2nd on-demand bus trial begins (TfL) • Can poor public transport explain Britain’s productivity problems? (CityMetric) • Decay & repair of the Dingle Overhead Railway Tunnel (ChrisIles) • For better transit for all, understand …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 13 November 2019

On 13 November 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, Pedestrians, Podcast, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• Underground to improve broadband speeds (IanVisits) • The end for the Cairn-Gorm mountain railway? (RailTechnology) • Boo! Who’s afraid of the pedestrian mall? (Curbed) • Gradials and the unreasonable road network (Transportist) • Sydney …

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Friday Reads – 8 November 2019

On 8 November 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Architecture, Congestion Charge, Friday Reads, Trams/Streetcars/LRT

• Moleman of Hackney dug his own London tunnels (Londonist)• Montréal Métro station architecture showcase (MTLBlog)• Naples tram network reopening imminent (UrbanTransport)• Portland’s MAX LRT downtown tunnel study (OregonMetro)• Quito Ecuador’s new Metro opening next …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 4 November 2019

On 4 November 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, Pollution

• Massive gaps in UK Gov’t air pollution monitoring (AirQualityNews) • Rotterdam Metro extension opens (RailRech) • Queen Margrethe II opens Copenhagen’s Cityringen Metro (UrbanTransport) • Parking garage residential conversion (Governing) • The war on …

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Friday Reads – 1 November 2019

On 1 November 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Congestion Charge, Friday Reads, New York, Pedestrians, Roads

• How London’s ULEZ is changing travel behaviours (TheDeveloper) • Your driving is scaring me – TfL’s Vision Zero (TfL) • Paris plan to pummel its Périphérique (CityMetric) • Cars are death machines (NYTimes) • …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 28 October 2019

On 28 October 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, Maps, Micromobility, New York, TfL

• The A to Z history of London (MappingLondon) • Virtual transit of the Thames under water (BBC) • When is efficient too efficient? Tech lessons from Hamburg (Spacing) • Gothenburg electrical circuit tram map …

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Friday Reads – 25 October 2019

On 25 October 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Croydon Tramlink, Friday Reads

• London Ultra-Low Emission Zone cuts pollution by a third (IntelTransport) • 1967 Tube Stock retextiled reimagining (Dezeen) • Faces on the ferry art (Guardian) • The garden pavilion of West Croydon bus station (BeautyOfTransport) …

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Monday’s Friday Reads – 21 October 2019

On 21 October 2019 By Long Branch Mike In Friday Reads, Northern line, Trams/Streetcars/LRT, Waterways

• Northern Line’s mulled Egyptian renaming (IanVisits) • South London’s lost canals (TheGreatWen) • Great Yarmouth’s 1928 Venetian waterways reopen after restoration (Revitalization) • Stockholm’s abandoned Eriksdal train tunnel (AtlasObscura) • Munich’s U9 Ubahn extension …

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